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@Ben_P
Cycling to work this morning following a car, me about 2 foot from the curb, slowed down as we approached a left hand turning as I'm always second guessing cars as to whether or not they will turn with out indicating.
Lo and behold, the car indicated unbelievably late, I pulled on the brake slowing my legs down and my brake cable snapped. Monumental sense of terror as I continued going, kind of slammed into the side wing and bounced round the front of the car as she stopped. Luckily I didn't come off and wasn't going too fast to cause any damage to me, my bike and no real damage to the car. Rest of the ride to work spent brakeless. What a great commute.